Aspire shares one of its data tools
Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Aspire Public Schools, the state’s largest charter school organization, is giving away a spoonful of its secret sauce and hinting that more free stuff is coming. This week, Aspire announced that it is making available a student performance analysis tool, called Schoolzilla (as in “Attack your school’s data”), to school districts statewide. This feature enables educators to compare and visualize California Standardized Tests data in quicker and cleaner ways than they could before. By uploading CST files to a server that Aspire is hosting, a district can compare two-year test results among its schools in depth. (more...)